Product Design Director

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We’re looking for an experienced Product Design Director to lead a multidisciplinary team of designers focused on bringing our exciting mission from a vision to reality. The ideal candidate has experience shipping world-class products and a strong design sense that values simplicity and usability.

What you’ll do

Lead a 3-5 person product design team

Develop and drive forward the design vision to align with the company vision and help inform product and design team roadmaps and goal setting

Be a strong voice in evolving the product design workflow to better drive impact and cross-team functionality

Establish and reinforce consistent design patterns and solutions, set a high-quality bar, and help eliminate design debt across the platform

Provide feedback and guidance around all facets of the product design process, between user experience design, interface design, and visual design

Lead the professional development of designers through coaching and performance management

Build strong ties with Product and Engineering directors to spark collaboration between teams, and develop a more transparent and strategic development process

Manage workload across team, allocate designers to projects

Be an advocate for design across the company and proactively seek buy-in from leadership and other teams.

Strong organization skills and an ability to clearly and cohesively share ideas and processes across the team.

Curious, optimistic and a skilled problem-solver

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to set up frameworks and brainstorm initial concepts

Strong understanding of how the product design process works from UX to visual design

Our team is bold, supportive, and passionate about bringing people together in real life to create community for everyone. We care about moving fast, real-world change and building diverse, dynamic teams. You in?

About Meetup

About Meetup
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For example, people run marathons, thanks to running Meetups. They write, thanks to writing Meetups. They change their careers, thanks to career Meetups. Because at Meetups, people welcome each other. They talk, help, mentor, and support each other – all in pursuit of moving their lives forward.
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